Global Extended Family

Angela will be serving in the Women’s Social Work ministry in Nicaragua with Students International. It is a ministry that desires to meet the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs in the poorest country in Latin America. The ministry site she will be a part of focuses on strengthening the relationships between the women of Nicaragua while continuously pointing to God in the process. Specifically, this ministry introduces skills to women in order for them to bring income into their homes to help support their families. She is excited to share the gospel in a way that allows her to live out what she preaches.

Brenna McBrien is serving as a secondary mathematics teacher and missionary at the International Christian School of Lima in Lima, Peru, with the Network of International Christian Schools (NICS). It is a Pre-K through grade 12 school that serves the international business and expat community of Lima by providing top quality American education while integrating the gospel into the classroom. Brenna is excited that she gets to pair her passion of teaching mathematics with her heart of spreading the gospel to the nations.

The Griffiths are serving with Ethnos360 to help people connect to God and to each other in their neighborhood in West Africa.

They arrived in West Africa in 2012. They have studied two national languages and connected with a local body of believers in the capital before starting their work amongst an unreached people group in a remote village.

Currently, Del recently acquired proficiency in this language and Arielle is close to attaining language proficiency in this people group. Del will turn his attention towards understanding the culture, language analysis, working on translation of the Holy Scriptures, literacy, and teaching the Scriptures. With the goal of seeing a group of disciples formed that then go and form other groups of disciples

Jessie will be serving as a long-term missionary with Students International (SI) in Desamparados, Costa Rica. She will join the Sports and Recreation Ministry Site to provide more fitness programs, team sports outlets and mentorship for students of all ages within the smaller communities of Desamparados. The main objective of the program is to show Christ’s love through various avenues, to disciple and to empower children to reach their God-given potentials.

The Sports and Recreation Ministry Site travels to various schools, community centers or neighborhoods to serve the people of Desamparados and share Jesus’ love with them. Ultimately, the hope is that Jessie will run a sports ministry specifically for teen girls, as there currently is not an outlet for these young women.

Students International is an organization that strives to bring students and the poor together cross-culturally to encounter God, share the good news, disciple and serve others in occupational ministries.

Jessie would love for you to be a part of her journey by following posts, photos and prayer requests on her Facebook page.

Larry brings 40+ years of cross-cultural Kingdom ministry with a global organization on three continents to the Extended Family partnership. After several years of fellowshipping with our La Fuente Spanish gathering, including an active role on the worship team, Larry is now in a West African context. He is learning the trade language before progressing on to the heart language of a highly unreached people group. 

Building upon a lifetime of worship participation, Larry seeks to use his music and cross-cultural background to come alongside a largely illiterate people group in his West African setting. As he gains fluency, he also desires to accept a West African pastor’s invitation to help prepare West Africans for their cross-cultural ministry to this and other people groups.

W Family working in Northern Africa. Because of the restrictions placed on full time Christian workers, we do not name or publish information about these workers on the internet. If you have an interest in learning more about the W family, please reach out to our Missions Department.